Your Signature Themes

SURVEY COMPLETION DATE: 08-30-2015

Caroline Gathogo
Many years of research conducted by The Gallup Organization suggest that the most effective people
are those who understand their strengths and behaviors. These people are best able to develop
strategies to meet and exceed the demands of their daily lives, their careers, and their families.
A review of the knowledge and skills you have acquired can provide a basic sense of your abilities,
but an awareness and understanding of your natural talents will provide true insight into the core
reasons behind your consistent successes.
Your Signature Themes report presents your five most dominant themes of talent, in the rank order
revealed by your responses to StrengthsFinder. Of the 34 themes measured, these are your "top
five."
Your Signature Themes are very important in maximizing the talents that lead to your successes. By
focusing on your Signature Themes, separately and in combination, you can identify your talents,
build them into strengths, and enjoy personal and career success through consistent, near-perfect
performance.

Discipline
Your world needs to be predictable. It needs to be ordered and planned. So you instinctively impose
structure on your world. You set up routines. You focus on timelines and deadlines. You break longterm projects into a series of specific short-term plans, and you work through each plan diligently. You
are not necessarily neat and clean, but you do need precision. Faced with the inherent messiness of
life, you want to feel in control. The routines, the timelines, the structure, all of these help create this
feeling of control. Lacking this theme of Discipline, others may sometimes resent your need for order,
but there need not be conflict. You must understand that not everyone feels your urge for
predictability; they have other ways of getting things done. Likewise, you can help them understand
and even appreciate your need for structure. Your dislike of surprises, your impatience with errors,
your routines, and your detail orientation dont need to be misinterpreted as controlling behaviors that
box people in. Rather, these behaviors can be understood as your instinctive method for maintaining
your progress and your productivity in the face of lifes many distractions.

Relator
Relator describes your attitude toward your relationships. In simple terms, the Relator theme pulls you
toward people you already know. You do not necessarily shy away from meeting new peoplein fact,
you may have other themes that cause you to enjoy the thrill of turning strangers into friendsbut you
do derive a great deal of pleasure and strength from being around your close friends. You are

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comfortable with intimacy. Once the initial connection has been made, you deliberately encourage a
deepening of the relationship. You want to understand their feelings, their goals, their fears, and their
dreams; and you want them to understand yours. You know that this kind of closeness implies a
certain amount of riskyou might be taken advantage ofbut you are willing to accept that risk. For
you a relationship has value only if it is genuine. And the only way to know that is to entrust yourself to
the other person. The more you share with each other, the more you risk together. The more you risk
together, the more each of you proves your caring is genuine. These are your steps toward real
friendship, and you take them willingly.

Positivity
You are generous with praise, quick to smile, and always on the lookout for the positive in the
situation. Some call you lighthearted. Others just wish that their glass were as full as yours seems to
be. But either way, people want to be around you. Their world looks better around you because your
enthusiasm is contagious. Lacking your energy and optimism, some find their world drab with
repetition or, worse, heavy with pressure. You seem to find a way to lighten their spirit. You inject
drama into every project. You celebrate every achievement. You find ways to make everything more
exciting and more vital. Some cynics may reject your energy, but you are rarely dragged down. Your
Positivity wont allow it. Somehow you cant quite escape your conviction that it is good to be alive,
that work can be fun, and that no matter what the setbacks, one must never lose ones sense of
humor.

Developer
You see the potential in others. Very often, in fact, potential is all you see. In your view no individual is
fully formed. On the contrary, each individual is a work in progress, alive with possibilities. And you
are drawn toward people for this very reason. When you interact with others, your goal is to help them
experience success. You look for ways to challenge them. You devise interesting experiences that
can stretch them and help them grow. And all the while you are on the lookout for the signs of
growtha new behavior learned or modified, a slight improvement in a skill, a glimpse of excellence
or of flow where previously there were only halting steps. For you these small incrementsinvisible
to someare clear signs of potential being realized. These signs of growth in others are your fuel.
They bring you strength and satisfaction. Over time many will seek you out for help and
encouragement because on some level they know that your helpfulness is both genuine and fulfilling
to you.

Learner
You love to learn. The subject matter that interests you most will be determined by your other themes
and experiences, but whatever the subject, you will always be drawn to the process of learning. The
process, more than the content or the result, is especially exciting for you. You are energized by the
steady and deliberate journey from ignorance to competence. The thrill of the first few facts, the early
efforts to recite or practice what you have learned, the growing confidence of a skill masteredthis is
the process that entices you. Your excitement leads you to engage in adult learning
experiencesyoga or piano lessons or graduate classes. It enables you to thrive in dynamic work

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environments where you are asked to take on short project assignments and are expected to learn a
lot about the new subject matter in a short period of time and then move on to the next one. This
Learner theme does not necessarily mean that you seek to become the subject matter expert, or that
you are striving for the respect that accompanies a professional or academic credential. The outcome
of the learning is less significant than the getting there.

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